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Great (Glavnaia) Synagogue in Odessa
Object Detail

Building Date
1847-1850

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Community

Location
Ukraine | Odeska obl. | Odesa (Одеса)
| 26 Evreiskaia St. (corner of 30-34 Rishel'evskaia)

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Synagogue

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Urban significance

Significance Rating
3 (National)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography

CJA documentation;

Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues, and mass grave sites in Ukraine. United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad (Washington D.C., 2005);

Evrei Odessy i yuga Ukrainy: Istoriia v dokumentakh, kniga 1 (kon. XVIII - nach. XX vv.) (Odessa, 2002), p. 109, ill after p. 128;

Mikhail Polishchuk, Evrei Odessy i Novorossii: sotsial'no-politicheskaia istoriia evreev Odessy i drugikh gorodov Novorossii, 1881-1904 (Jerusalem-Moscow, 2002), p. 130-133, 374 note 15;

Steven J. Zupperstein, The Jews of Odessa: A Cultural History, 1794-1881 (Stanford, 1985), p. 60, 90;

Evreiskaia Entsiklopediia, 16 vols. (St. Petersburg, 1908-1913), vol. 12, p. 50, ill. on p. 51;

www.moria.farlep.net/vjodessa/en/synagogs.html;

Michael Beizer, Our Legacy: The CIS synagogues, Past and Present (Moscow-Jerusalem. 2002), ill. on p. 16;

Jewish Encyclopedia, 12 vols. (New York, 1901-1906), vol. 11 (NY1905), ill. on p. 632 (entrance); vol. 9, ill. on p. 382;

http://www.archives.gov.ua/Sections/Odesa/RGIA/index.php?19#photo; РГИА, ф. 218, оп. 4, д. 1777, л. 83

Vladimir Levin, “Reform or Consensus? Choral Synagogues in the Russian Empire,” Arts 9 (2020), 1–49. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/9/2/72


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2019

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